Book Reviews

Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Drawings and Prints

By Nadine M. Orenstein, Manfred Sellink, Martin Royalton-Kisch, Michiel C. Plomp, Larry Silver, and Jürgen Müller

Edited by Nadine M. Orenstein. Jürgen Müller’s texts translated by Russell M. Stockman. New York, New Haven and London: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2001. 336 pp, 108 color illus., 288 b&w illus. ISBN 0-87099-990-7; 0-300-09014-5, paperbound, ISBN 0-87099-991-5

Review published May 2002

Pieter Bruegel the Elder has been under a brilliant spotlight for some thirty years – a light which has faded away many traditional notions about this artist. A concentrated look at Bruegel’s drawn [...] Read More

Albrecht Dürer. Das Frauenbad von 1496. Eine Ausstellung um eine wiedergefundene Zeichnung

By Anne Röver-Kann

[Exhibition catalogue. Bremen, Kunsthalle, September 11 – November 4, 2001]. Bremen: H.M. Hauschild GmbH, 2001. 116 pp, 100 illus., plus text photos. ISBN 3-89757-128-5

Review published May 2002

Bremen’s exhibition celebrating the return of two of its Dürer drawings, missing from wartime storage in Schloss Karnzow since the closing days of World War II, opened on a day now considered fateful [...] Read More

La Peinture et le Laboratoire: Procédés. Méthodologie. Applications

By Roger Van Schoute and Hélène Verougstraete

(Le dessin sous-jacent et la technologie dans la peinture, Colloque XIII, Bruges, September 15-17, 1999). Leuven: Peeters, 2001. ISBN: 90-429-1047-X

Review published May 2002

This volume brings together the papers presented at the thirteenth colloquium, held at Bruges in September of 1999, dedicated to the investigation of underdrawings and technology in paintings. Edited [...] Read More

The Donor’s Image: Gerard Loyet and the Votive Portraits of Charles the Bold

By Hugo van der Velden

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2000. 285 pp, 133 b&w illus., 16 col. plates. ISBN 2-503-50722-0

Review published May 2002

An appealing volume for the generalist and specialist alike, The Donor’s Image provides an analysis of the history, context, and iconography of one of the world’s most precious and fascinating [...] Read More

Painting and Patronage in Cologne 1300-1500

By Brigitte Corley

London: Harvey Miller, 2000. 342 pp, 280 illus., 30 in color. ISBN 1-8722501-51-6

Review published May 2002

This book – the first such study in English–– traces the development of later medieval painting in Cologne over two centuries, beginning with the emergence of the agitated ‘Zackenstil’ in the wall [...] Read More

Illiterati et uxorati. Manuscripts and their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500

By Richard H. Rouse and Mary A. Rouse

Turnhout: Brepols Publishers; London: Harvey Miller, 2000. vol. I: 413 pp, vol. II: 407 pp. ISBN 1-872501-41-9

Review published May 2002

The Latin that hovers above the more sober "Manuscripts and their Makers," on the title page of Richard and Mary Rouse’s magisterial two-volume work, is Francis Bacon’s dismissive description of the [...] Read More

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